Howard Pyle, a chronicle by Charles D. Abbott, with an introduction by N. C. Wyeth and many illustrations from Howard Pyle's works.

HOWARD PYLE: A CHRONICLE
decided promise. And all the students of the class have
shown more advance in two months of summer study than
they have in a year of ordinary instruction. This, of course,
might have been largely due to the fact of the contact of
the students with nature and of their free and wholesome
life in the open air. Their labors were assiduous and unrelaxing, their recreation being taken only in the evenings.
They prepared for work by eight in the morning, and they
rarely concluded their labors until five or six in the afternoon. The result of this close application shows I think in
our exhibition.
"In this outline of our summer work I make no mention
of the brighter and happier coloring which your bounty
brought so generously into these young lives. Apart from
the great and abundant happiness they enjoyed, they were
able also to earn considerable amounts of money from their
art work.
"Another season I will volunteer, as I have during the
past summer, to give my instruction gratuitously to a summer class." 1
At the close of the second session, he again wrote to
Dr. McAlister: "1... Though the work done by the pupils
duringy the past summer is perhaps not so great in number of
examples finished for exhibition purposes, it is yet in many
respects of the highest order achieved in our Institute. Each
pupil1 has been working throughout the summer at a single
composition made originally by the individual. These have
been worked up into finished pictures in more or less full
color. I had photographs taken of these examples of work
and showed them to my friends Harper & Brothers. These
1'Letter to Dr. James McAlister, October xz, 18 98.
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